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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2021 15:33:31 GMT -5
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Post by peeves on Oct 16, 2021 8:39:29 GMT -5
This will be an annual vaccine now, endemic forever. Less transmission-hospitalization and death. WE could have done better *
"A: The expectation that COVID-19 will become endemic essentially means that the pandemic will not end with the virus disappearing; instead, the optimistic view is that enough people will gain immune protection from vaccination and from natural infection such that there will be less transmission and much less COVID-19-related hospitalization and death, even as the virus continues to circulate.
The expected continued circulation of *SARS-CoV-2 stands in contrast with the first round of SARS in 2003 and with the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa in 2014, when public health measures ultimately stopped spread and brought both outbreaks to an end. While there are important differences among the viruses and the contexts, this comparison underscores the critical need to improve our global public health infrastructure and surveillance systems to monitor for and help respond to the inevitable next potential pandemic virus.
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